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...obesity epidemic, meanwhile, is swelling quickly. The World Health Organization estimates that a billion people worldwide are overweight, and 300 million are obese; more than a third of U.S. adults are now obese. So, why is it so hard to lose weight? "It looks very simple: People need to eat less and exercise more," Padwal says. "But if you drill down it's more complicated." Telling a single mother who works full-time that she should take a brisk walk in the inner city after work each day is not the most practical advice - she's unlikely...
...they are on all trips and especially the long hauls, the flight attendants are trained to keep an eye out for passengers who aren't handling the flight well: then the crew will engage them in conversation, offer them a drink or something to eat--all designed to lower the travelers' stress level. My stress was so low I decided I had to sleep. I easily dropped off and caught a four-hour nap. The cleverly designed seats have a headrest that bends to form a kind of a pillow: no embarrassing head drops onto your neighbor's shoulder...
...build a hangar at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes instead asked the small contractor who had built his home to do it for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind-set of staff so they eat, sleep and breathe costs...
...addition to a complete reading of the entire poem, the Milton marathon included a re-enactment of the climactic moment when Adam, played by Benjamin M. Woodring, who is in his first year of the English PhD program, and Eve, played by Danielle C. Kijewski ’11, eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adorned with loincloths and fig-leaves, they made resounding crunches from apples for added emphasis. Over the course of the night, the nearly two dozen participants whittled down to the eight remaining iron-willed members. These poetic...
...almost heartbreakingly carefree. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t have to stress about dental bills or airport security. Mussy and adorable frontman Luke Lalonde leads the room in a hyperactive, sing-along dance sequence and then the whole gang tries to eat floating origami hummingbirds. Who could ask for more? For us Americans, this is probably what heaven is like. For our lucky Canadian neighbors however, it’s probably just another Tuesday night. —Nayeli E. Rodriguez